DD is 11 months old and we are struggling with the 2-1 transition. For some time she was doing 1 long nap, like 1.5 hrs and 1 shorter nap about 45 min each day, sometimes the longer nap was in the morning sometimes in the afternoon. Then in the last month naps have been 45 or less and waking has been getting earlier 6:15 is a good day, 5am is a not so good day. So i was trying to increase her first A time slowly and cap the am nap at 30 min, give a slightly shorter second A time aiming for a longer pm nap. Works sometimes, early waking is on going. DD sometimes wakes early from the am nap I'm trying to cap at 30 min, waking at around 20 min. She also tends to fall asleep during bf with all these short naps, especially in the morning when i'm capping a nap.
Today, with the clocks going forward yesterday, she woke at 7am, at 4.75 hours A time (longest yet) she was showing sleepy signs put her down took about 15 min of happy settling to sleep, but woke up 1 hr later happy and did not fall asleep with bf. We'll do an early bed time. Should we try and extend short naps and how to do it?
Any tips are appreciated. I feel like every day she does something a little different and i'm not sure how to tweak the routine. She's starting daycare in a month and they have expressed a preference to have her do a single nap starting at 12:30. It looks like it might not be too much of a stretch, but she'll need to be napping more then an hour. Thanks!
